The “Introducing CodeCanyon” Scripting Competition: $6200 Worth of Prizes!
I’m extremely excited to announce our first ever CodeCanyon competition. For those unfamiliar, Envato recently launched its newest marketplace, focused specifically on selling high-quality scripts and components for PHP, JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Java. As we’ve only recently launched, we’re hoping to build up our repository with a host of fantastic scripts and components, across all of the categories.
We’re launching this new marketplace with a bang; we have over $6000 worth of prizes to give away to three talented developers.
How Do I Enter?
Quite simply! To enter, prepare an item (PHP, JS, ASP.NET, or Java) of your choice for CodeCanyon, and once it has been submitted and accepted on the site, leave a comment here with a link to your item. That way, we can track it! That’s all! Then, on March 1st, 2010 (CST), my review staff and I will filter through all of the submissions and choose the best three of the bunch!
Grand Prize Winner
- 1 Dedicated Virtual Box (Rage) from Media Temple ($1200 value)
- 1 32 gigabyte iPod Touch ($299 value) (Ultimate TechSmith Package)
- 1 copy of Camtasia Studio for Mac or PC ($299 value) (Ultimate TechSmith Package)
- 1 copy of Camtasia Studio 6: The Definitive Guide ($39.95 value) (Ultimate TechSmith Package)
- 1 Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe PC Webcam ($99 value) (Ultimate TechSmith Package)
- 1 Audio Technica USB Studio Condenser Microphone ($149 value) (Ultimate TechSmith Package)
- $100 Envato credit (Can be used across all of the marketplaces)
- $200 cash
- 1 MediaTemple Gift Card – 1 year of hosting, 1 domain name, Up to 5 websites. ($95 value)
- $25 Amazon Gift Card
- 1 year Tuts Plus membership – ($180 value)
- 1 Wufoo Subscription – 1 year ($288 value)
- 1 Formspring Pro Subscription – 1 year ($348 value)
- 1 Surreal CMS Subscription – 1 year ($275 value)
- 1 Personal TypeKit subscription – 1 year ($300 value)
- 1 Myows Paid Account – FREE for life
- 1 Rockable Press Book of your Choice ($29 value)
- 1 copy of Snippet (mac app) ($13 value)
- 1 copy of jQuery UI 1.7 from Packt Publishing ($40.49 value)
- 1 copy of Magento Beginner’s Guide from Packt Publishing ($35.99 value)
- 1 copy of Object-Oriented JavaScript from Packt Publishing ($35.99 value)
- 1 copy of jQuery Cookbook from O’Reilly Publishing ($34.99 value)
- 1 Threadsy Invite
- You will be featured on the front page of CodeCanyon as both the featured author and the featured item of the week!
- Your item will be included in a collection of the three winning submissions, and will be promoted on the front page of CodeCanyon
- As an Envato marketplace author, you’ll earn 40-70% of every sale!
2 Runners-Up
- 1 year Tuts Plus membership – ($180 value)
- $50 Envato credit
- 1 Personal TypeKit subscription – 1 year ($300 value)
- 1 Surreal CMS Subscription – 1 year ($275 value)
- 1 Wufoo Subscription – 1 year ($288 value)
- 1 Myows Paid Account – FREE for life
- 1 Rockable Press Book of your Choice ($29 value)
- 1 copy of Snippet (mac app) ($13 value)
- 1 Threadsy Invite
- Your item will be included in a collection of the three winning submissions, and will be promoted on the front page of CodeCanyon
- As an Envato marketplace author, you’ll earn 40-70% of every sale!
What Kind of Item Should I Submit?
We’ll that’s entirely up to you! That’s where you get to be creative. With that said, you’ll want to think of an item that will appeal to a wide variety of buyers. Ask yourself, “what sort of script or component – that’s not widely available around the web for free – have I often found myself in need of? Remember that, at this time, we’re only accepting PHP, JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Java related items.
Refer here to view the best selling items on CodeCanyon.
FAQs
When is the deadline to enter?
The competition will officially end on February 28th, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Central Standard Time. However, we do hope that you’ll submit before that date.
Are all items accepted on CodeCanyon?
No. You’ll first go through a review process, similar to all of our other marketplaces. It’s possible that your item will be rejected, in which case, it won’t be considered.
How Will you Judge?
We’ll consider many factors when determining the winners: overall sales, innovation, how much it appeals to a wide variety of buyers, etc.
Who Will be Judging?
The CodeCanyon review staff will collaborate to determine the winners.
Terms and Conditions
- Envato staff and reviewers are not eligible to compete
- Only items uploaded between 12:01 AM 02/01/2010 and 11:59PM 2/28/2010 CST and subsequently approved for sale on CodeCanyon are eligible to count.
- The same author cannot win more than once. In other words there will be three winners, no less.
- Our decision is final.
- Files that are taken down for any reason are not eligible to be counted.
- Files must stay up on CodeCanyon for at least 6 months.
- Items may not be substituted for their cash equivalent.
- Prizes will be awarded during the first week of March, to give time to ensure no copyright infringement has occurred.
So get coding! There are five-thousand reasons to do so! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.
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Nice competition!
Good luck to everyone!
Great competition and prizes!
Will join for sure! :)
WOW! What a prize list! I definitely have to create the coolest javascript plugin evar!! Now what should it do? I know it will make website for me, and bring me coffee in the morning ;)
The amount of schawg for the grand prize winner is insane!
WOW, it is great
thanks 4 tutsplus
Nice competition! I might just give it a go :)
Nice prz list. Shorly will take part in competition.
Lets see whos Kong-Fu is the best?)))
No Ruby, Python?
That’s what I thought. They should definitely have Ruby and Python sections, if they have ASP.NET.
Great competition! I’ve had some ideas that I’m gonna have to get off my butt and write! Thanks for the positive mojo.
Does that make us the first entry?
Introducing AJAX Contact Form; Extended. Some new features we’ve seen requested over and over again (Captcha!) to couple a rewritten handler file!
Best of luck to all who enter, some great prizes up there!
http://codecanyon.net/item/ajax-contact-form-extended/82622
Jigowatt (@jigowatt)
It’s times like these I wish I didn’t review things for you guys….
I hope I win!
Hope I win!
Those are some really great prizes!
Awesome. Good luck to everyone!
Yeah I plan to win some of those
Who won the $50 Amazon gift certificate and who were the 12 winners for the 12 days of Christmas prizes?
Every posting was updated. When we announce the winners, you’ll see “Winner Announced” added to the title.
1 Dedicated Virtual Box (Rage) from Media Temple ($1200 value)
1 MediaTemple Gift Card – 1 year of hosting, 1 domain name, Up to 5 websites. ($95 value)
who needs the gift card after they have a dedi server
You’re right. I forgot about the gift card, after they offered something even better!
Give the gift of hosting to a good friend :)
- (mt) Scott DeSmet
great prizes
Wow, that’s a lot of prizes! Good luck to all who enter!
Wow, $6200 awesome i will also participate ;)
Hoping to see some java submissions as well…
Great prices, will write a piece of code as well :D
Hello all,
One question about “Files must stay up on CodeCanyon for at least 6 months.” Does this mean that we should already have published something on the codecanyon(minimum 6 months ago) or not? I’d like to create something and try to win this :D cheers
No – that just means that, if you win, you can’t immediately remove the winning item from CodeCanyon. :)
oh, ok gr8 I have just the right thing in mind then :)
From CodeCanyon i like this files:
WordPress theme framework:
http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-theme-framework-wtf/67217
Smooth PHP Calendar
http://codecanyon.net/item/smooth-php-calendar/50894
I’m looking new Category: “WP Plugins” “Joomla Extensions”
I got a a lot of little snippets sitting around from a lot of projects which I could submit. Is WordPress Plugins included?
cool i hope i get some time prepare something cool for the competion
maybe PHP or ASP.NEt
Wow, got to make something ASAP :)
BTW is the Threadsy invite for the private beta? I have 10 if someone wants them :)
Click the link bellow the gravatar it will take you directly to threadsy registration. (it won’t take you to tutsvalley.com or some spam site, i promise)
Some feedback, even if it is not asked for. Though when I watched the videos on YouTube a while back, listening to the users is one of the thing the founders said they valued.
I don’t want to be too forward though I have to admit the process for signing up and adding content is not as easy as it should be. This is not to have a go, it is to help make it easier for your future members.
1. The questionnaire to become an author. I got 9 out of 10 questions right. Then all the answer went blank. So there I am going to I read the entire thing again or just abandon. I decided to preserve. I would recommend that you just blank out the question the person gets wrong. Otherwise it is a matter of wasting a lot of time trying to figure out which one particular question you got wrong.
2. I wanted to submit a piece of code which does back-ground work. There is no screen-shots etc. Then etc time I got something not quite prefect the from the files selection is reset.
Anyway, I hope this feedback helps.
1. People will game the system. Put any answers and try again and again until they are all correct
2. You are right, the upload interface is a little hard to understand/use but it works perfect, I uploaded my files
my item on codecanyon
http://codecanyon.net/item/deposit-system/59753
You cannot apply your item for this contest:
Only items uploaded between 12:01 AM 02/01/2010 and 11:59PM 2/28/2010 CST and subsequently approved for sale on CodeCanyon are eligible to count.
ah ok thanks for the info, should read more carefully next time :)
Good Luck im in…:)
Just to let everybody know, this isn’t just a breeze, it is very very difficult to get your item onto Codecanyon, I have even tried uploading an item, and it got rejected, but that won’t stop me, I am definitely going to have a go at this contest.
Good luck to all ;)
Quick question before I spend some time creating something worthy of this contest… is it only the items linked from this or other contest posts that will gain people a possible entry, or will anyone submitting content automatically get an entry? Odds are, each month you’ll receive X number of new items in your store, but out of those, if only 50% remember to come here and put their link into the draw, that increases the odds I can win one of the three prizes…
Quick Question: I am planning a major update to my product QuickTick (http://codecanyon.net/item/quicktick-the-deployable-helpdesk/62614). I plan on releasing this on February 13th. Will my product be eligible to enter into the contest? I am really excited about the release, which includes many features purchasers suggested.
I also want to try us.
Here my CodeCanyon script:
http://codecanyon.net/item/lastfm-top-albums-styled-charts/84966
Here is my new script: easy blog 2.0 – new version. It is a HUGE upgrade from the previous one. I completely rebuilt the code. I have submitted it today.
http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-blog/54549
Hmm the dedicated server is crap for how much it costs :/
Hi Jeffrey. I have a question. What if I summit a script on Febrary 28th? I undestand that there is a review process, and I don’t know exactly how much time does it take it.
So, if the answer is that it has to be live (already pass the review process) on Febrary 28th, what would be the deadline to summit my work?
I have a quick question, can I also include say like 1-2 flash files, a fla and swf so people can edit?
http://codecanyon.net/item/smart-suggest-advanced-autocomplete/80946
This doesn’t count, because it was submitted in January
Here is my submission. I asked if the update was significant enough (Which I believe it is).
http://codecanyon.net/item/quicktick-the-deployable-helpdesk/62614